One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be nurtured and encourages first by our nuclear family and then by ever-widening circles of friends, teachers, well-wishers. As young artists, we need and want to be acknowledged for our attempts and efforts as well as for our achievements and triumphs. Unfortunately, many artists never receive this critical early encouragement. As a result, they may not know they are artists at all.

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.